江苏省高中英语口语等级测试纲要.docx

1、江苏省高中英语口语等级测试纲要2016年江苏省高中英语口语等级测试纲要第一部分 朗读短文并回答问题用正确的语音语调朗读下面的短文并回答问题。1“Depend on yourself.” is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. Still others can help you. But all these people only help you to help yourself.There have been many great men in history. But ma

2、ny of them were very poor in childhood, and had no uncles, aunts, or friends to help them. Schools were few and of poor quality. They could not depend on them for an education. They saw how it was, and set about working with all their strength to learn something. They worked their own way up to fame

3、.One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils, “I cannot make worthy men of you, but I can help you make men of yourselves.”Some young men have no ambition to do anything, and they are to be pitied. They can never succeed unless they see their foolishness, and change their cour

4、ses. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of parents and teachers, and depend upon their own honest and serious efforts.2In many parts of the world，university students work during the summer vacation. They need money, and they can get some wor

5、king experience. Traditionally, they get jobs as servers, cashiers, and lifeguards at swimming pools.These days, however, more and more students are working at dotcoms. Dotcoms are Internet-based companies which offer goods and services online. The pay is usually much better than that at the traditi

6、onal summer jobs.There are other advantages besides the pay. In addition to providing good experience, the work is also enjoyable. On top of this, their co-workers treat them with respect.Dotcoms are new and need new ways of thinking. Imagination and enterprise are more important than formal qualifi

7、cations. So some students are even leaving school to start their own dotcoms.3Dear Mr ZhuI am writing to your magazines “Teenagers Now” column to ask for some help with my 16-year-old son. At the moment, he refuses to do almost everything his mother and I ask him to do. He is our only child, and we

8、treat him very well, and his grandparents buy him many things. Yet he is still rude to us. He refuses to spend time with us or do as we tell him to. Sometimes he acts as though he doesnt even love us at all.Recently he has been refusing to do his homework, and instead insists on wasting his time wat

9、ching DVDs and listening to foreign music. I cannot understand this music, but I dont like it. He also spends too much time in Internet cafes, where he either plays games or chats online. He is wasting valuable time during this important period in his life!What am I to do? At present, to prevent ups

10、etting his mother with an argument, I am allowing him his freedom. However, I am worried that if I keep allowing him to do what he wants to, he may fail at school, or worse.How can I help my son without harming our relationship?Yours sincerely,Liu Zhenhua 4Dear Amy,My computer was broken so I couldn

11、t read your two e-mails until today. Im so sorry to hear about your problem, but Im glad youre feeling better and are recovering. Im amazed that in China someones liver matched yours! This is really a touching storya stranger who donated part of his liver to a girl he doesnt even know!Youre right. W

12、e shouldnt be embarrassed about our weight. I think you look great as you are, and youre a wonderful person. I know that the pressure to stay slim is a problem, especially for an actress. However, your mother knows best: nothing is more important than health.Its the same in Chinamany people, some of

13、 whom are not overweight at all, are always going on a diet or taking weight-loss pills, which are often dangerous. I hope they can learn from your story. Yours,Zhou Ling5Thanks to the development of Chinas economy and society, the countrys sports and fitness industry is taking off, with 36 percent

14、of Chinas population between the ages of 7 and 70 taking regular physical exercise.In 1995, the central government issued an Outline of the National Fitness Programme to enhance the development of national public fitness. Since then, rapid progress has been made in building sports and fitness venues

15、 and facilities, raising public awareness of the importance of keeping fit, and in organizing sporting activities.Encouraged by the central governments call to build a harmonious society and the successful holding of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, people have obviously become more conscious of thei

16、r fitness.6Tom was on a bus when the accident happened. He was traveling along when suddenly there was a loud crash! The bus driver fell asleep while he was driving, and drove into a huge building. Everything went black. All Tom could remember was being in great pain.He woke up three days later, wit

17、h a bad headache. It was then that he realized that he had only one arm. During the accident a sharp piece of metal cut off his arm.At first he found it difficult to adjust to life without one of his arms. He had to learn to do many things with just one arm instead of two. However, after some time h

18、e got used to it and began to be motivated to do many things again.Now, he is back at work and starts running every day. He enjoys running because it keeps him fit and healthy. Also, he is very fast, and it doesnt matter that he has only one arm. It was hard to adjust to life after the accident, but

19、 now he is as happy as he used to be.7People travel for a lot of reasons. Some go to see historic battlefields. Others are looking for culture, or simply want to have their pictures taken in front of famous places. Most European tourists are looking for a sunny beach to lie on.Northern Europeans are

20、 willing to pay a lot of money for the sun because they have so little of it. People from cities like London and Amsterdam spend much of their winter in the dark, for the days are so short, and much of the rest of the year in the rain. Every summer, many people travel to Mediterranean resorts and be

21、aches for their vacation. They all come for the same reason: sun!Italys 30,000 hotels are booked without a break every summer. And 13 million people camp on French beaches, in parks and on roadsides. Spains long sandy coastline attracts more people than anywhere else: 37 million tourists go there ev

22、ery year.But there are signs that the area is getting more tourism than it can deal with. The Mediterranean is already one of the most polluted seas on Earth.8There are many different dialects of English spoken depending on where people live. When Old English was developing, it consisted of an Anglo

23、-Saxon base mixed with many words from other languages. Before people could write, they used oral poems to record the history of England. Old English became the official language of England in the 10th century. English vocabulary has lots of similar words for the same thing and that is because so ma

24、ny different people came to England. Another thing that happened in English is that there are different words for animals and the meat which comes from them. This is because the English servants cooked for the French-speaking royalty. King Henry IVs mother tongue was English and he was the first kin

25、g to use English after the Normans conquered England in 1066.9Body language shows all kinds of feelings, wishes and attitudes and is sometimes more important than spoken language.A smile is the universal facial expressionit is intended to put people at ease. It does not always mean that you are happ

26、y, however. A smile can hide other feelings like anger, fear or worry.In most countries, nodding the head up and down shows agreement, while shaking the head means that you do not agree, or that you refuse to do something.If you look away from a person or yawn, they may think you are not interested

27、in them. If you stand holding your arms across your chest, you may be protecting yourselfjust from a conversation you do not want! If you sit looking at, and turn toward, the person you are talking to, it shows that you are interested. If you roll your eyes and turn your head away, most likely you d

28、o not believe what you are hearing, or you do not like what you hear.There are some differences in body language between cultures. It is important to give them attention.10The Chinese language differs from many Western languages in that it uses characters which have meanings and can stand alone as w

29、ords. Chinese people invented numerous characters to represent ideas, objects or actions. Chinese words are often formed by combining different characters. The history of many Chinese words can be seen by looking at how their characters developed. Chinese writing began thousands of years ago. There

30、is a legend that says that a man named Cang Jie invented Chinese writing. One winter day while he was hunting, he saw the footprints of birds and animals in the snow and realized that each one was different. Then he had the idea that he could use different shapes or pictures to represent different o

31、bjects. These shapes or pictures were the very first Chinese characters.11There are nearly 400 different types of sharks in total, but only about 30 types have ever been reported as attacking human beings. Most people know that the most dangerous shark is the great white shark, mainly because they h

32、ave seen the movie Jaws. However, there are still two other sharks which are fierce. They are the tiger shark and the bull shark. The chances of being attacked by a shark are very small compared to other dangers. The number of people who drown in the ocean every year is larger than the number of people attacked by sharks. The low number of attacks that happen every year proves that sharks do not feed on humans if they have the choice.12Most people believe we must not drink sea water. They believe that if we do we shall be very ill because of all the